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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 2d

For these legacy media journalists, it’s never about the work or the writing. Their opinion on other “journalists” is whether they find them to be good company at dinner parties.

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan is most certainly not a tremendous writer, lmao

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 2d

So true, same thing happened to Leni Riefenstahl!

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I hate that it’s just normal now to pull a starting pitcher after two innings even if he hasn’t given up a run

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 11d

Wow this is a much better article than the Politico article on the coin, unsurprisingly

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 17d

My family drove cross country from New England to Seattle when I was in high school. We took maple syrup with us and brought it into diners.

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 21d

Really beginning to become apparent how the second Roaring 20s will end

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 21d

Genuinely depressing to consider a millennial political organizer and podcaster as a christ-level martyr or even as a big brother figure. These are sad, broken people.

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 21d

The President usually believes whatever the last person to talk to him said, we knew this already

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 21d

As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel

hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...

Air pollution linked with increased risk of autism in children | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Exposure to fine particulate air pollution has been linked with significantly increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children, particularly if exposure occurs during the third trimester of preg...

hsph.harvard.edu

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23d

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 22d

Turkey feather flag is the best of this weak crop

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 25d

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 25d

Ah, well, that settles it

charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 25d

Hayden Christensen did kind of adopt a “haha I got away with it all” look for this Special Edition appearance

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 26d

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...

On Jimmy Kimmel: It's Time to Destroy the Censorship Machine and Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996

In 1996, Bill Clinton set the stage for what Donald Trump is doing now by creating a censorship machine of consolidated media, broadband, and tech firms. It's time to break it apart.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 26d

It doesn’t help than in many New England towns the commons are surrounded on all four sides by busy, often multi-lane roads.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27d

If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants.

If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd.